Book of the week: Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne by Roland Topor
Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne, first published in France as Portrait en pied de Suzanne, is the first Roland Topor book to be...
Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne, first published in France as Portrait en pied de Suzanne, is the first Roland Topor book to be...
'This is the first true biography of one of the greatest French intellectual of the twentieth century, who lived to the age of 100 and...
'Among the greatest cartoonists of his generation' - Le Monde 'An authentic,emotionally honest memoir' - The Guardian One month after the...
The 2018 edition of the South Ken Kids festival has officially started! The festival is the perfect occasion to celebrate children’s...
Can you feel the South Ken Kids Festival coming? Our Book of the Week is definitely giving us some clues. Drawing Europe Together is a...
Celebrated French blogger Emma depicts the issues that weigh disproportionately on women – the invisible and unpaid mental labour like...
The winners of this year’s literary prizes have been announced throughout the last three days, full of homages, tributes, and surprises....
Mathias Enard is in London to launch Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, his novel translated by Charlotte Mandell and published...
' Tristan Garcia demonstrates how at the most encompassing level of contemporary social roles lives the Romantic consumerist, forever...
Nathacha Appanah, author of the award-wining The Last Brother, returns with a powerful novel about lost youth on an overseas region...
The Lakes Comic Art Festival are partnering for the first time with the Lyon BD Festival to launch the exhibition 'Hero(ine)s'. Following...
'Strike Your Heart’ is a finely honed, piercing novel. No wonder it is acclaimed in France. If you are human, it will strike your heart,...
'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction. An old woman lives alone in a...
Did you love The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaître? Discover his new novel and the story of a mysterious man ready to sacrifice everything...
‘Louise Bourgeois talks, talks to herself, reviewing the scraps of her long life in all their disorder. This is the portrait, from...
Author of children and young adult's literature, translator and so much more, Clémentine Beauvais will be one of our wonderful guests at...
A little preparation is needed before you open this book of the week. Antoine Laurain, the author, gives you a trick: close your eyes,...
Small Country (Penguin) by Gaël Faye and translated by Sarah Ardizzone is today's Book of the week and June's Book of the Month. This...
For today's Book of the Week, the Book Office is taking you to the privacy of an Afghan home, in which a woman attempts to keep her...
The Book Office was completely taken by No Place to Lay One's Head, by Françoise Frenkel. What makes No Place to Lay One's Head unique is...